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==Passage of Amendment 2==
{{main|1992 Colorado Amendment 2}}
In 1992, Colorado voters approved by [[Popular initiative|initiative]] an amendment to the [[Colorado]] state constitution (Amendment 2) that would have prevented any city, town, or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to recognize homosexuals or bisexuals as a [[protected class]].<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1986&context=bclr | title =Colorado's Amendment 2 and Homosexuals' Right to Equal Protection of the Law |last1= Zamansky |first= Stephen |journal= [[Boston College Law Review]] |volume= 35 |issue= 1 |pages= 221–258 |date= December 1993}}</ref><ref name=opinion /> The amendment stated:

{{quote|Neither the State of Colorado, through any of its branches or departments, nor any of its agencies, political subdivisions, municipalities or school districts, shall enact, adopt or enforce any statute, regulation, ordinance or policy whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the basis of or entitle any person or class of persons to have or claim any minority status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of discrimination. This Section of the Constitution shall be in all respects self-executing.<ref name=opinion />}}

That amendment was approved by a vote of 53% to 47%.<ref name=CSM>{{cite news |last= Gascoyne |first= Stephen |url= http://m.csmonitor.com/1992/1203/03031.html |title= Anti-Gay-Rights Law Leads To Colorado Boycott Calls |work= [[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date= December 3, 1992}}</ref> According to public opinion surveys, Coloradans strongly opposed discrimination based upon sexual orientation, but at the same time they opposed [[affirmative action]] based upon sexual orientation, and the latter concern is what led to the adoption of Amendment 2.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Turner |first= William |url= http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wjlgs/issues/2007-spring/turnernobanner.pdf |title= The Gay Rights State: Wisconsin's Pioneering Legislation to Prohibit Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation |journal= Wisconsin Women's Law Journal |volume= 22 |pages= 91, 104 |date= 2007 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100611165520/http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wjlgs/issues/2007-spring/turnernobanner.pdf |archive-date= June 11, 2010 |df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name=Gerstmann>{{cite book |last=Gerstmann |first=Evan |title=The Constitutional Underclass: Gays, Lesbians, and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection |pages=[https://archive.org/details/constitutionalun00gers_0/page/100 100–102, 135–138] |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1999 |isbn=0226288595 |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalun00gers_0/page/100 }}</ref>  The governor of Colorado, [[Roy Romer]], opposed the measure, but also opposed retaliatory boycotts against his state.<ref name=CSM />